The Trump administration has announced more restrictions on travel from Iran after the Corona virus killed a person in Seattle, the first to die from the disease on American soil.

Iran is already under a travel ban, but we're expanding existing travel restrictions to include any foreign nationals who has visited Iran within the last 14 days.

Iran is the Gulf's most effective country.

Were more than 40 people have died, the highest number outside of China.

Vice President Mike Pence says the administration is also raising its travel advisories to the highest level for Italy and South Korea.

Countries that have been hard hit by Covert 19 were urging Americans to not travel to the areas in Italy.

In the areas in South Korea that are most affected by the Corona virus.

We want to lower the amount of travel to and from the most impacted areas.

This is a basic containment strategy.

The first American death comes as troubling cases have emerged in California, Oregon and Washington state, where it's not clear how the patient's caught the virus.

But Trump says the country is in great shape to tackle the looming health crisis.

Our country is prepared for any circumstance.

Comments coming a day after Trump claimed the outbreak is a hoax.

Democrats politicizing the Corona virus hoax, referring to the action that they take to try and pin this on somebody because we've done such a good job.

The escalating outbreak has sent governments around the globe into frenzied attempts to confront the spread of this disease.

Australia announcing Saturday it will also close its borders.

Tall foreign travelers from Iran.

We feel that Iran poses at the current moment a very high risk, and it would help the light progression of this disease interest rate.

Trump also appealed to the media and politicians not to do anything to incite panic because, as he put it, there's no reason to panic at all.